ALL FLIGHTS TO BANGKOK CANCELED. But maybe we can help.
Good morning boys and girls and so on. It is already Thursday, February 17 in downtown Thailand.
Can I buy a return ticket to Bangkok, please?
Sorry, best we can do is a flight to Krung Thep Maha Nakhon.
It's a lot like the day in 1939 when the dictator Phibulsongkram wiped the name "Siam" and called it Thailand (ประเทศไทย) or Land of the Thais.
The official change from "Bangkok" to "Krung Thep Maha Nakhon" (ชื่อนี้มีความหมาย-ที่มาอย่างไร) came at the out-of-the-blue request of the Royal Academy, headed by His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun. The regime's cabinet meeting approved.
Don't ask. You will be informed if the Royal Academy and military dictators think you should know.
And please do not panic. If you want to call it "Bangkok" there is no prison sentence. But please put (Bangkok) in parentheses.
https://thethaiger.com/news/bangkok/bangkok-to-be-officially-named-krung-thep-maha-nakhon
Background: All Thai-language speakers already call their capital city "Krung Thep Maha Nakhon", or just "Krung Thep" - but never "Bangkok".
"Krung Thep Maha Nakhon" means, in English, "Capital City of Angels, Great City."
All Thai school children learn and memorise the world's longest city name:
The official name, created from a combination of Sanskrit and Pali, is the original name of Bangkok.
Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit
In English:
"The city of angels, the great city, the eternal jewel city, the impregnable city of God Indra, the grand capital of the world endowed with nine precious gems, the happy city, abounding in an enormous Royal Palace that resembles the heavenly abode where reigns the reincarnated god, a city given by Indra and built by Vishnukarma".
Much more at the regime's official news outlet,
https://thainews.prd.go.th/en/news/detail/TCATG220216162055841
New thrills for tourists coming to Asia.
Where's Samuel L. Jackson when you need him?
AirAsia flight in Malaysia rerouted after snake found on board plane.
"This is a very rare incident which can occur on any aircraft from time to time," said Captain Liong Tien Ling, AirAsia's chief safety officer.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/airasia-malaysia-snake-plane-rerouted-intl-hnk/index.html
NOT FUNNY
If you don't want to believe this... then don't.
Brilliant writer and satirist P.J. O'Rourke dies at 74.
Fittingly, family and doctors and morgue workers disagreed on whether he had really died.
One classic O'Rourke article that hinted at the flavour of the man was for the National Lampoon, in 1979:
How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink.
https://deadline.com/2022/02/p-j-orourke-dead-satirist-author-npr-panelist-was-74-1234934208/
Parenthood sure can interfere with one's pleasure!
Pattaya mother and father were so busy taking filthy photos for the internet that they let their child drown.
Wiyada "Soda" Pontawee, 26, and photographer-husband Pongrit Hancharoenpanna were so busy "working" in their villa that they just dropped 2-year-old baby Chawanakon by the pool and walked away.
Where "working" means removing clothes and taking explicit, nude photos meant for sale on OnlyFans and other websites that feature full, even gross nudity.
After being caught for letting her child drown, Soda cried. "I'm heartbroken. I don't want to live anymore. I am praying to bring my son back to life." Won't work, chicky.
PHOTO: Photos used to help to lure voyeurs into Soda's OnlyFans website. At right, her dead son.
FULL STORY and PHOTOS at
https://www.the-sun.com/news/4690934/boy-drowns-pool-onlyfans-model-mum-party-photoshoot/
Interpol has issued two "red notice" arrest warrants for a pair of Canadians over the suspected murder of an Indian gangster outside a luxury villa on Thailand's Phuket island.
[And we all know the outstanding efficiency of Interpol red notices.]
Jimi 'Slice' Sandhu -- whose nickname comes from a distinctive scar on his face -- was gunned down on February 5 after having flown in on a private jet from Malaysia last month, according to Thai police and local media reports.
Following a Thai police investigation, Interpol issued non-binding arrest warrants or "red notices" for Canadian citizens Matthew Leandre Ovide Dupre and Gene Karl Lahrkamp, both 36, in connection with Sandhu's murder.
The two suspects -- described by Interpol as armed and dangerous -- left Thailand on February 6, according to the international agency's notice.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220215-interpol-issues-warrants-for-canadians-over-gangster-s-murder-in-thailand
Thailand's alleged 'government' has approved yet another package of incentives including tax cuts and subsidies to try to attract makers of electric vehicles and attachments.
THAILAND CORONAVIRUS EDUCATION CHILDREN
The no-nonsense guide to reopening all classrooms
Covid-prevention measures must be rational and non-discriminatory, meaning that non-vaccinated students should not be prohibited from attending class.
Any measures that are beyond the school's control must be removed.
PHOTO: Students from Sam Khok school wearing face masks and face shields are seen inside old ballot boxes repurposed into partitions.
COMMENTARY by Nicha Pittayapongsakorn, senior researcher at the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI).
https://w
ww.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2264859/
MASKS CHILDREN U.S.A.
The U.S. state of Virginia has make ALL mask mandates illegal, starting on "Tremendous Tuesday", March 1.
The Washington Post had sadz, but then discover the extreme joy of doxxing Canadians who might have donated to truck drivers, maybe.
Masks and face coverings will be optional in all Virginia public schools.
"Children have not only suffered learning loss, they have suffered relationship loss," said the state governor Glenn Youngkin.
https://bityl.co/Axse
t.ly/1P4T
Thailand has been talking about replacing its only, ageing nuclear facility for years.
People still think that a nuclear facility is a bomb, but there has been one inside Bangkok for 61 years.
That said: If you care about Thailand and about the planet, you have to be pro-nuke. And Europe, for example, is far past the ridiculous show of the Chatuchak (Bangkok) nuclear facility.
Is Europe's Nuclear Phaseout Starting to Phase Out? France re-ups aggressive fission policy; Poland and Romania expand theirs; EU frameworks will treat some nukes as sustainable.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/frances-nuclear-push-shows-that-germanys-phaseout-isnt-the-whole-story
Tale of the three-legged tiger
Wildlife experts and remote villages alike are enthralled by how Indochinese tiger I-Douan lost a full leg, and hobbles from attack to attack.
Simple explanation: She escaped from a poacher's tiger trap.
Survival is going to be a life-or-death problem for the animal. With villagers deeply involved.
THAILAND SOUTH AMERICA DRUG TRAFFICKING
Thai customs agents at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport on Wednesday arrested three Brazilian drug mules and seized 15.5 kilogrammes of high-quality cocaine.
The two men and a woman arrived on two separate flights
Anti-drug police said the street value of the seized cocaine was 46.5 million baht - US$1.5 million or 1.8 million loonies.
A 27-year-old Brazilian man and a 22-year-old Brazilian woman arrived from Coribita in Brazil on a Qatar Airways flight. Later, a man was arrested after arriving on flights directly from Brazil.
PHOTO: Customs officials and Suvarnabhumi airport officials found the coke in bags belonging to the three Brazilian nationals.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/easy/2265051/
New cases of Chinese Covid-19 coronavirus just keep piling up.
Thailand registered 16,462 more Covid-19 cases and 27 new fatalities on Tuesday.
There were 16,326 cases in the general population and 136 cases imported by tourists and illegal migrants.
The astounded number of new cases will be the major point in a likely brutal two-day non-confidence debate in parliament on Thursday and Friday.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2264999/
The U.S.A. did it differently.
Biden's 'Winter of Death' is almost over. But
On the day it had
82,903 new coronavirus cases, and,
1,926 coronavirus deaths
The administration of President Joe Biden said, "Shucks, that ain't nothin'."
There is NO coronavirus crisis in (or near) the U.S.A.
Well, okay.
Now do Air Canada in the country that has literally outlawed freedom of speech, freedom of movement, freedom of association, travel, movement, business, etc.
Question: Can you still marry or live with a person of different skin colour in Canada?
Man Kicked Off a Flight Because He Had 'Let's Go Brandon' Written on His Mask
https://rumble.com/vv399j-man-reportedly-kicked-off-a-flight-because-he-had-lets-go-brandon-written-o.html
Related
Thai border patrol police trapped and arrested 138 illegal aliens from Myanmar.
The 89 men and 49 women were arrested in a rubber plantation in Kanchanaburi (of 'Bridge Over the River Kwai' fame).
All told authorities they desperately needed jobs. None tested positive for any disease.
PHOTO: Thai army interpreters interrogated the arrested illegals - and gave each one a mask.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2258971/
THAILAND U.S.A F35
RTAF's purchase of F-35s up to US government, says manufacturer
If the Royal Thai Air Force wants to buy new, or used, F35 stealth fighter jets, it's up to the U.S.A. government and President Joe Biden.
So said the airplane manufacturer Lockheed Martin on Wednesday.
Speaking on the sidelines of the Singapore Airshow, Tim Cahill, Lockheed Martin's senior vice president for Global Business, confirmed Thailand had expressed interest, but said there was "nothing official that I am aware of that has come relative to that".
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2265079/rtafs-purchase-of-f-35s-up-to-us-government-says-manufacturer
THAILAND CHINA ECONOMY
Where this will go, no one knows.
For economists only: China to work with Asian nations to grow use of local currencies in trade
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2265083/
RUSSIA UKRAINE WAR
For the eighth time in seven days, President Joe Biden and the U.S. have warned that a Russian invasion of Ukraine is likely, any day now.
Bookies have begun taking odds on whether Biden finally gets one right.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2265059/
Related: Analysis
Biden gets friendly but conflicting advice
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/02/biden-gets-friendly-but-conflicting-advice.php
HONK HONK
CANADA TRUCKERS
'Trudeau is Alone': Fifth (out of 10) Canadian Province Abandons Vaccine Passports Amid Crackdown on Freedom Convoy.
Quebec thus becomes the fifth province to announce the end of the vaccine passports, joining Alberta, Saskatchewan, Prince Edward Island, and Ontario.
Quebec is the latest province to revolt from the Canadian prime minister's vaccine passport policy, Keean Bexte reported. “Trudeau is alone,” Bexte remarked.
Saskatchewan, home of noted Canadian novelist Jason Schoonover, has already dumped requirements for negative test or proof-of-vaccination.
And the chief of police of Ottawa has resigned.
America's newspaper of record: Xi Jinping Criticizes Trudeau's Heavy-Handed Approach.
https://babylonbee.com/news/xi-jinping-criticizes-trudeaus-heavy-handed-approach
The useless and uninformed C.I.A. doubled down on ridiculous attacks on media that refuse to buy its fake news about Trump and Russia.
[Reminder: the C.I.A. is unaware, as usual, that Trump is not the president of the U.S.A.]
Planted C.I.A. agents accused ZeroHedge.com of ginning up Russian propaganda.
ZeroHedge replied:
https://t.co/I87aaJrmO3
GOSSIP/TRUTH
Allison Gollust, the disgraceful CNN mattress girl of disgraced CNN chief Jeff Zucker, has quit.
https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/allison-gollust-resign-cnn-warnermedia-1235183160/
THE SEX LIVES OF GALAXIES: Sublime New Hubble Image Reveals a Thrilling Exchange Between Two Galaxies.
https://www.sciencealert.com/incredible-new-hubble-image-shows-galaxies-pulling-material-from-each-other
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